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Clintwood is a town in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,414 at the 2010 census.
In June 1948, the town of Clintwood elected an all-female town council for the period from 1948 to 1950. The "Petticoat Government", as it was nicknamed, implemented change in many areas, including cleanup of the town, eliminating parking problems, organizing a systematic garbage disposal system, eliminating several traffic hazards, organizing the town's fire department, and purchasing a fire truck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clintwood,_Virginia
Squinch
(50,989 posts)bodies "Tighty Whitey Governments."
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)A little more colorful, perhaps.
Madam Mossfern
(2,340 posts)I was born in 1948, it was not sexist in intent.
Petticoat is not a pejorative word. Women wore petticoats back then - no big deal.
Squinch
(50,989 posts)No one would ever dream of calling an all-male government after men's underwear.
It WAS sexist in intent. It's just that, at the time, sexism was casually tossed around and not seen as a problem. Which, in itself, was sexist.
Sudsy
(58 posts)Yonnie3
(17,462 posts)77% for trump in 2016
in 1948 it had 57% for Truman
Figures are for the county (Dickenson) rather than the just the two Clintwood precincts. The State website didn't break down the vote further than the county for the 1948 election.
underpants
(182,861 posts)there are about 70 people there who aren't white
Yes that is RED zone.